Kingdom of Bahrain

The information age has forced the public sector to adapt to the rapid changes within the economic and service sectors. In addition to specially trained individuals and technocrats, the country’s economy which is increasingly based on sophisticated knowledge, needs a modern and technologically advanced and innovative environment. The public sector is, however, progressing slowly in adapting to these dynamic changes in knowledge management. Under this project, the UNDP will support efforts that will allow public sector employees to receive training in a systematic, individual-capacity based manner. Civil servants therefore would take primary responsibility for implementation of annual training programmes developed in consultation with their managers as part of their annual performance evaluations. The goal is to develop knowledge based institutions by merging training, active learning, and knowledge sharing to maintain a cutting-edge competitive work force.

Launching of a simplified e-Training Readiness Survey, with the participation of the Central Informatics Agency, to assess how ministries and government institutions are technically capable of facilitating e-training programmes.

Various options of Learning Management Systems (LMS) were reviewed in an ongoing process to adapt a powerful LMS system that is capable of serving the needs of the CSB e-Training system.

Readiness survey was completed by the CO and the counterpart through subcontracting a vendor, which screened the status of the different stakeholders. The survey clarified what and how much training is needed in the government institutions.

A Two-day workshop on e-training concept was organized, 40 employees from the civil service attended.